Easy Back of Door Gift Wrap Organizer

Pretty packages are one of the best things about the holidays but I tend to have an issue with giftwrap. Either I can't find the roll I want or its crushed beneath something in the closet. Ive been meaning to make or buy a gift wrap organizer for a while but nothing suited me.

Lucky for me, the organizing stars aligned this weekend while I was browsing in Ikea. I found a few kitchen accessories and wondered if that might do the trick. Turned out to be just perfect for what I wanted. For $20, I'm hoping I never waste another roll of beautiful paper again. The best part? It was super easy to install.

I simply screwed the bars onto the inside of a closest door, hung the baskets and used the curtain clips to hang the gift wrap. The most difficult part was finding screws (Ikea didn't include them with the bars! ARGH!)

Such a small and easy project but I love how it turned out. And look - I even have room for a few more rolls. Hmmm.

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This is pretty brilliant. I don't even have wrapping paper to store, but I could see using this for a million things. Right now I have a hanging shoe rack on the back of my front closet door holding cleaning supplies, random things, and shoes (of course). I'd love something like this, but we can't drill holes into the doors of our apartment. Lame, right?

But I'll keep this in mind for our first home! Thanks for sharing your cleverness!

Love this idea! Such a great way to store & display your gift wrap supplies. I like how it's easy to spot what gift wrap items you need at a glance. Like if you have a little girl's birthday, and all you have are Iron Man and wedding wrap. Thanks for sharing.

This is freaking brilliant! I actually already have one of those rods attached to the back of the door in my studio to hold pretty tissue paper so now I just need two more rods. Thank you for sharing this awesomeness!!

The door is hollow but was sturdy enough on the flat bits of the door to hold the screws very well. I was worried that would be an issue so I was prepared to glue it or use anchors but it wasn't necessary.

Love it. I've got the same doors and have been wanting to get the wrapping paper out from under the bed. (I swear it multiplies under there with the dust bunnies.) Any chance that the rods separate so you can slip some ribbon rolls on them? If not I might use cafe curtain rods for mine. Great job! Happy Monday!

Thanks for this idea! I saw it this AM and have already stolen it. I used a thin curtain rod affixed to my office wall to hang the wrapping paper that was previously housed in (jammed into) an old wastebasket. Problem solved! Yay! Thanks for sharing it.

LOVE this! I cant wait to have an office of my own (and my own home actually) and I am totally saving this idea!! I struggle to keep all my wrapping paper pretty and neat and I think this would be just the storage for me.

No, the doors are definitely new. These are the only new doors in our entire house because we created a closet where there wasn't one. I think there are levels of hollow doors but these have a bit of solid wood around the panel area. Its not completely solid because they are much lighter than a solid door. But they aren't completely hollow either.

Genius I love it. Why is it when I'm at Ikea my brain turns to moosh and I can't think as to what I'd use that for or what it is I even came for!?!?! :) I've got to copy this...too good, especially since I just wrapped gifts and almost died while scaling the garage piles to get to my wrap. Not kidding! LOl.

This is brilliant! I've been planning on doing something like this, but none of my inspiration projects were as simple, pretty and polished as yours! I'm definitely doing this. Thanks for sharing the details!

See above in the comments. It's not a completely solid door but it has something to hang on to where the panels come together. So it worked very well for this. If you had a completely hollow door, I'd suggest glue

This is amazing! I have been wanting to make a gift wrap organizer for so long, and like you said, nothing really suited me. THIS seems to be just what my brain was trying to think up and picture...thanks for the inspiration. Love finding multiple uses for IKEA goodies. Yay!

Wow! I Love this so much! I live in an apartment and this is so brilliant that I know my landlord wouldn't even mind that I'm putting holes in the door! Might even have to put this behind two doors. :)

I was just looking for a way to keep my wrapping organized. I am even going to put a bar in my building in my Christmas corner to keep my Christmas paper in order. No more bent edges and large rolls of paper rolling around. Thanks so much for the idea

Awesome! I totally just bought one of those racks (an impulse buy) and I haven't thought of where or what to do with it, and I've been looking for a place to store my wrapping paper. Thank you for this idea!!

Thank you! Sometimes it's these small ideas that make the greatest difference. I just followed your instructions and did this in my closet. It works perfectly. Mine is on the inside wall of a walk-in instead of a door. It has cleared out three whole shelves for me and I'm grateful for the extra space. Love your blog.

Even though the screws are not packaged with these items, I believe they are available at IKEA. Just a tip so that when you purchase these things there, ask the salesperson if they have the hardware. Sometimes they are in a different area of the store as well so be sure to ask.

To keep the clips from damaging the paper, take a empty paper towel roll and cut it straight down the side from one end to the other and slide around the roll of paper. It will keep the paper from unrolling and protect it from the clip.

The paper doesn't unroll at all in the clip. Good point on preventing a little mark on the paper. Its barely noticeable so it doesn't bother me but if you had really fancy paper, its a good idea to save it from the damage.

I love this!! I could use this on the back of my craft room door. I have all the other necessities to wrap with there, so could move the wrapping paper bar up, and have room for another at the door knob level....two rows of wrapping paper!Thanks!

Ikea has all size washers and screws to go with their products but many times they are in bins near customer service and you pick out what you need - no extra charge.you just have to remember to get them before you leave the store.

I'm not sure what wallpaper you are referring to but the clips hold the gift wrap rolls very well (never had one fall since I've installed this!). It does make a tiny kink at the edge which doesnt bother me since it's minor (and much less damage than happens when I leave the rolls in a pile in the closet) but you could protect the paper with a limitless cardboard between the clip and paper if you like.

You can hang these bars using some of the 3M removable velcro squares that are sold at Walmart, Target etc. My landlord didn't throw a fit when I used them in her apartment and she was a toughy (and my sister ;))

I love those 3M things but I dont think they would work in this case because they are only supposed to hold a pound or two. With all of the paper rolls loaded on, this bar can get kinda heavy. So I would probably not use them unless you were planning on restricting what you hung.

I have a couple of questions: wondering the same as others - the clips that are no longer avail. any ideas of right-size solutions? Also, the rolls you have, are those clips strong enough to hold most sizes of wrapping paper rolls? Some rolls are larger than others and I wondered if the clips are strong enough for some of the larger rolls of paper? Thanks,blm7@cornell.edu

I would think you could use any solid curtain ring clips to get the job done. I've never had any issue with any size gift wrap roll provided the clamp was large enough to grasp it. So for example those giant rolls from Costco wouldn't work but I hang all sorts of standard rolls and have never had one fall. Hope that helps!